Re: memmove() with 5 arguments? (was F14 X server problem)

2010-11-29 Thread Dick St. Peters
Nalin Dahyabhai writes: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:37:05PM -0500, Dick St. Peters wrote: > > The ltrace output in /tmp/Xorg.out has 176 calls to memmove(), all > > with five arguments, like this example: > > > > memmove(0xa352c50, 0xa3535e0, 1648, 0x806892f, 0x40001c) > > > > Can anyone she

Re: memmove() with 5 arguments? (was F14 X server problem)

2010-11-29 Thread Nalin Dahyabhai
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:37:05PM -0500, Dick St. Peters wrote: > The ltrace output in /tmp/Xorg.out has 176 calls to memmove(), all > with five arguments, like this example: > > memmove(0xa352c50, 0xa3535e0, 1648, 0x806892f, 0x40001c) > > Can anyone shed some light on what is going on here?

Re: memmove() with 5 arguments? (was F14 X server problem)

2010-11-29 Thread stan
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:37:05 -0500 stpet...@netheaven.com (Dick St. Peters) wrote: > The ltrace output in /tmp/Xorg.out has 176 calls to memmove(), all > with five arguments, like this example: > > memmove(0xa352c50, 0xa3535e0, 1648, 0x806892f, 0x40001c) > > Can anyone shed some light on wha

memmove() with 5 arguments? (was F14 X server problem)

2010-11-29 Thread Dick St. Peters
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:33:54 -0500 I started this topic by saying: > I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server > doesn't play nice with fvwm - or with twm. When fvwm or twm calls > XCreateFontSet(), the X server dies with a SIGSEGV. > To get around this, I have copied the

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Dick St. Peters
Tom Horsley writes: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:33:35 -0500 > Dick St. Peters wrote: > > > Let's be precise: you are using the F14-distributed fvwm with the > > F14-distributed /usr/bin/Xorg server, and it's working? In other > > words: > > > > $ rpm -qa | egrep 'fvwm|xorg-x11-server-Xorg' > > fvwm

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:33:35 -0500 Dick St. Peters wrote: > Let's be precise: you are using the F14-distributed fvwm with the > F14-distributed /usr/bin/Xorg server, and it's working? In other > words: > > $ rpm -qa | egrep 'fvwm|xorg-x11-server-Xorg' > fvwm-2.5.30-2.fc14.i686 > xorg-x11-server-

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Dick St. Peters
Tom Horsley writes: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:33:54 -0500 > Dick St. Peters wrote: > > > I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server > > doesn't play nice with fvwm > > I use fvwm all the time, I've never had the X server die on me. > Maybe you have something in your .fvwmrc

Re: F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:33:54 -0500 Dick St. Peters wrote: > I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server > doesn't play nice with fvwm I use fvwm all the time, I've never had the X server die on me. Maybe you have something in your .fvwmrc file that refers to some specific f

F14 X server problem

2010-11-28 Thread Dick St. Peters
I need to run X with the fvwm window manager, but the F14 X server doesn't play nice with fvwm - or with twm. When fvwm or twm calls XCreateFontSet(), the X server dies with a SIGSEGV. To get around this, I have copied the F13 /usr/bin/Xorg server binary and /usr/lib/xorg/modules directory conten